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2008年07月26日

Keeping the changelog and module versions in sync

I've reverted all of my distributions back to a relatively normal style. That is, I'm no longer generating the POD during make time. Other people generally didn't like it, and while it was convenient, it added an extra layer of complexity and had quite a few prerequisites.

I've also reverted all the Changes files from YAML back to plain text. Because this is still very much structured, it can be converted between YAML and plain text fairly easily using Module::Changes.

The working style I've adopted right now is to record changes in the Changes file and defining a new version there without changing the $VERSION variable in every module. So I wrote a script that keeps the moduiles' version number in sync.

The script is on CodeRepos and will be released to CPAN as part of Dist-Joseki at some point. You can either tell it to use a given version number: version -v 1.23, or to use the most recent version mentioned in the Changes file using version -c. It will go through all files in the distribution and update every $VERSION line it finds.

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